No, they're just going to remove it. If you want OpenJDK, you have to install that by hand.
For almost all users, OpenJDK is just fine and is the one to use. (e.g. any Java plugins in the browser, almost any Java app). Anyone who is affected by this went to some effort to install Sun Java by hand specifically.
I work in a Java shop. We run Sun Java 6 on a mix of Solaris and Ubuntu. I'll be handrolling a deb from the Sun Java tarball precisely because not everything can be trusted to work identically between Sun Java 6 and OpenJDK 6.
We just recently hit a weird bug which turned out to be a "how did that ever work?" moment - revolving around different implementation-specific behaviours in Sun Java 6u24 for Solaris SPARC and Sun Java 6u26 for Linux.
We'll be moving to OpenJDK, but only after thorough testing. OpenJDK 6 is a proper Java, but we've discovered the hard way not to make any such move without thorough testing. Because programmers are human and bugs happen. Never trust, always verify.
Canon Ixus (or PowerShot SD in the US) is a really easy and good snapshot camera. Cheap, too. If you point it at things and click, you'll get decent photos most of the time. They're also easy to carry everywhere.
That's the right sort of camera to learn composition and take pictures of everything and see what you can do with it and so forth on. Once you're sick of its limitations, go to a DSLR. Do not start on a DSLR, it's what you get second.
This is on the same crack as the rest of GNOME 3. They've invented the Windows event log, well done! Now I hand you a trashed system, but you can read the disk. You look into/var/log/syslog... no, you don't. "We might document the on-disk format eventually, but at this point we don’t want any other software to read, write or manipulate our journal files directly. The access is granted by a shared library and a command line tool."
Speaking as a sysadmin, I shudder at this incredibly stupid idea. Are they even thinking of how to get something actually readable in disaster?
Canonical, Inc. has announced the release of Ubuntu “Venereal Vista,” based on the Unity Vista desktop, which only 5 out of 11 first-time users managed to crash in final testing.
Unity is Canonical’s response to the GNOME 3 shell, which uses 1 gigabyte of RAM and four processor cores to exquisitely render a single button in the centre of the screen in beautifully anti-aliased text; when pressed, GNOME tells the user to switch off the computer and do something useful with their life, such as showering.
“This was just not up to the user expectations of Canonical’s vision of the desktop,” said Mark Shuttleworth, from his castle high on a crag in West London. “So we added a ‘minimise’ button too.”
Design is at the centre of Shuttleworth’s roadmap for Unity. “I woke up one day and thought, ‘Gosh, I’d really like to make using my universal general-purpose computer that I can do ANYTHING with feel like I’m using a locked-down three-year-old half-smart phone through the clunky mechanism some l33t h@xx0r used to jailbreak it, I can’t think of a better user experience.’ We’re not quite there yet, but this gets Unity a lot of the way.”
Shuttleworth foresees an exciting future for Linux for the general Internet user. “It’ll be a whole world of Linux devices, which millions of people will use all the time, everywhere! Of course, at the moment those are called ‘phones’ and run Android.”
Virgin Media will shortly trial 1.5Gbps cable Internet, but only to festering dot-com media cocks who live actually around Shoreditch itself.
“As the pace of technological change increases,” said the ISP in the press release all the papers copied word for word, “it is vitally important to public health that these people have as absolutely much incentive as possible never to leave their homes. Wanking themselves silly over gigabytes of high-definition porn also reduces their likelihood of reproducing.”
With the warmer weather, the Hoxton toxic waste pool has been growing and spreading, with reports of hipster infestations washing up as far afield as Hackney.
If the creative industries cannot be kept under control, by 2015 the entire population of Britain may be beret-wearing latte-sipping surrender monkeys telling you how much they just can’t stand hipsters. Virgin Media is currently rolling out 100Mbps broadband to two million of the most endangered residential premises in the hope of effective quarantine.
In the wider world, high speed Internet will apparently let consumers access all manner of as yet nonexistent socially-redeeming services made of magic beans and pink unicorns, which actually means BitTorrenting a pirated movie in under five minutes. And hitting your download cap in another ten.
Virgin Media also announced that its overall revenue for the first quarter was up 5.7 percent to £982m, as a result of the utter lack of any correlation between making money on a service and actually being able to provide it in a manner even slightly resembling reliability or competence.
Code something you personally want yourself. Make it an open source project. Or find a project doing something that's almost what you want and start working on it to make it work like you need it to.
Find a real project you actually want to work on, to make your own life better. Your skills will then be exercised.
(What does Linus Torvalds do for coding away from Linux? He writes a simple dive-computer routine. Not a dazzling display of computer science pyrotechnics, but an actual thing he didn't have, wanted and could do.)
Baron Silas Greenback will be suing science advocacy organisation the Royal Institution for daring to make her redundant merely for having run the Institution into the ground.
The neuroscientist, peer and supervillain’s job was abolished after a review of the Institution’s managment financial and financial structure suggested that blowing £22 million on an office refurbishment and leaving the organisation in massive debt may not have been the ideal forward-thinking move for the future.
Baron Greenback has been notable for popularising the notions that science claims that video games and computers will rot children’s minds (except her endorsed computer game product, MindFit, a snip at £58), that one puff of cannabis will destroy your mind forever and that the Royal Institution’s most valuable product is the promotion of Baron Greenback.
“As well as contesting the legitimacy of the firing process,” said the Baron, “I will be presenting a claim in the Employment Tribunal which will include allegations of competence discrimination. I am the only supervillain toad to have been appointed to this iconic post in the 211 year history of the Royal Institution, and cannot see how firing me on the flimsy pretext of having sent so much cash up in smoke that the annual report was printed entirely in red ink can be in the best interests of the organisation, its members or fighting that ridiculous rodent.”
“Baron Greenback,” said the Institute, “has played a leading role, not only in the development of the RI, but also in the wider scientific community through his work in popularising science and attempting to rule the world. Over the coming months, the organisation will focus on its many, diverse and renowned activities in scientific research, education, public engagement and attempting to get out of the hole she left us in without shutting up shop. Spare change? Dawkins bless you, sir!”
Baron Greenback is understood to be applying for Sharon Shoesmith’s old position at Hackney Council.
I have had cause to deal with this both on the server and the desktop.
tl;dr VMware works, and everything else is shit.
This pains me. VMware uses the pricing structure "how much have you got? yes, a bit more please thanks." They can do this because their VMs are not shit. They are ridiculously better than anything else.
VirtualBox in particular is just incompetent. It can more or less run Windows or Linux. As long as you don't want to do anything fancy, e.g. USB.
As a sysadmin, I would tremendously welcome something that cost less than VMware but didn't suck. No such thing presently exists.
For your home Linux box, use VMware Player if you value your sanity.
Ah. no. It has 40 million signups. They have not given a figure for active users. For comparison, when Facebook says 800M, that's 800M users who use the thing at least slightly. When Twitter says 100M, that's 100M users who use the thing. When Google says 40M, that means 40M accounts created and rotting.
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No, they're just going to remove it. If you want OpenJDK, you have to install that by hand.
For almost all users, OpenJDK is just fine and is the one to use. (e.g. any Java plugins in the browser, almost any Java app). Anyone who is affected by this went to some effort to install Sun Java by hand specifically.
I work in a Java shop. We run Sun Java 6 on a mix of Solaris and Ubuntu. I'll be handrolling a deb from the Sun Java tarball precisely because not everything can be trusted to work identically between Sun Java 6 and OpenJDK 6.
We just recently hit a weird bug which turned out to be a "how did that ever work?" moment - revolving around different implementation-specific behaviours in Sun Java 6u24 for Solaris SPARC and Sun Java 6u26 for Linux.
We'll be moving to OpenJDK, but only after thorough testing. OpenJDK 6 is a proper Java, but we've discovered the hard way not to make any such move without thorough testing. Because programmers are human and bugs happen. Never trust, always verify.
Hah, I haven't actually tried CHDK. I have an ancient Ixus 50 (SD400) I should give it a spin on.
Mm, you could be right there.
A second-hand older Ixus is cheap enough to do things like put CHDK on it and get quite a bit of that fine control.
Canon Ixus (or PowerShot SD in the US) is a really easy and good snapshot camera. Cheap, too. If you point it at things and click, you'll get decent photos most of the time. They're also easy to carry everywhere.
That's the right sort of camera to learn composition and take pictures of everything and see what you can do with it and so forth on. Once you're sick of its limitations, go to a DSLR. Do not start on a DSLR, it's what you get second.
Unfortunately, workplaces tend to the least worst, i.e. Linux. (We were Solaris until Oracle bought Sun.)
This is on the same crack as the rest of GNOME 3. They've invented the Windows event log, well done! Now I hand you a trashed system, but you can read the disk. You look into /var/log/syslog ... no, you don't. "We might document the on-disk format eventually, but at this point we don’t want any other software to read, write or manipulate our journal files directly. The access is granted by a shared library and a command line tool."
Speaking as a sysadmin, I shudder at this incredibly stupid idea. Are they even thinking of how to get something actually readable in disaster?
And what's the Bitcoin Forums response? Denial.
Canonical, Inc. has announced the release of Ubuntu “Venereal Vista,” based on the Unity Vista desktop, which only 5 out of 11 first-time users managed to crash in final testing.
Unity is Canonical’s response to the GNOME 3 shell, which uses 1 gigabyte of RAM and four processor cores to exquisitely render a single button in the centre of the screen in beautifully anti-aliased text; when pressed, GNOME tells the user to switch off the computer and do something useful with their life, such as showering.
“This was just not up to the user expectations of Canonical’s vision of the desktop,” said Mark Shuttleworth, from his castle high on a crag in West London. “So we added a ‘minimise’ button too.”
Design is at the centre of Shuttleworth’s roadmap for Unity. “I woke up one day and thought, ‘Gosh, I’d really like to make using my universal general-purpose computer that I can do ANYTHING with feel like I’m using a locked-down three-year-old half-smart phone through the clunky mechanism some l33t h@xx0r used to jailbreak it, I can’t think of a better user experience.’ We’re not quite there yet, but this gets Unity a lot of the way.”
Shuttleworth foresees an exciting future for Linux for the general Internet user. “It’ll be a whole world of Linux devices, which millions of people will use all the time, everywhere! Of course, at the moment those are called ‘phones’ and run Android.”
The piece was based on a story about Virgin doing precisely as described, i.e. putting the fast cable only around Silicon Roundabout.
Virgin Media will shortly trial 1.5Gbps cable Internet, but only to festering dot-com media cocks who live actually around Shoreditch itself.
“As the pace of technological change increases,” said the ISP in the press release all the papers copied word for word, “it is vitally important to public health that these people have as absolutely much incentive as possible never to leave their homes. Wanking themselves silly over gigabytes of high-definition porn also reduces their likelihood of reproducing.”
With the warmer weather, the Hoxton toxic waste pool has been growing and spreading, with reports of hipster infestations washing up as far afield as Hackney.
If the creative industries cannot be kept under control, by 2015 the entire population of Britain may be beret-wearing latte-sipping surrender monkeys telling you how much they just can’t stand hipsters. Virgin Media is currently rolling out 100Mbps broadband to two million of the most endangered residential premises in the hope of effective quarantine.
In the wider world, high speed Internet will apparently let consumers access all manner of as yet nonexistent socially-redeeming services made of magic beans and pink unicorns, which actually means BitTorrenting a pirated movie in under five minutes. And hitting your download cap in another ten.
Virgin Media also announced that its overall revenue for the first quarter was up 5.7 percent to £982m, as a result of the utter lack of any correlation between making money on a service and actually being able to provide it in a manner even slightly resembling reliability or competence.
http://newstechnica.com/2011/04/20/virgin-media-to-sell-1-5-gigabit-internet-to-complete-cocks/
Code something you personally want yourself. Make it an open source project. Or find a project doing something that's almost what you want and start working on it to make it work like you need it to.
Find a real project you actually want to work on, to make your own life better. Your skills will then be exercised.
(What does Linus Torvalds do for coding away from Linux? He writes a simple dive-computer routine. Not a dazzling display of computer science pyrotechnics, but an actual thing he didn't have, wanted and could do.)
I used to run FreeBSD on the desktop and liked it a whole lot. It's a really nice Unix and I deeply approve of it.
The secondary reason for giving it up was that Linux supports more hardware, specifically the laptop I had at the time.
The primary reason was that the ports system sucks ass, and when I tried synaptic on Ubuntu that converted me.
YMMV, of course.
Better - if you're name's not a Western-looking WASPonym, they'll look at the scan and still reject it.
Don't Be Evil - Just Racist.
You've missed that, whatever the stated rules, the suspensions and blockings continue.
Baron Silas Greenback will be suing science advocacy organisation the Royal Institution for daring to make her redundant merely for having run the Institution into the ground.
The neuroscientist, peer and supervillain’s job was abolished after a review of the Institution’s managment financial and financial structure suggested that blowing £22 million on an office refurbishment and leaving the organisation in massive debt may not have been the ideal forward-thinking move for the future.
Baron Greenback has been notable for popularising the notions that science claims that video games and computers will rot children’s minds (except her endorsed computer game product, MindFit, a snip at £58), that one puff of cannabis will destroy your mind forever and that the Royal Institution’s most valuable product is the promotion of Baron Greenback.
“As well as contesting the legitimacy of the firing process,” said the Baron, “I will be presenting a claim in the Employment Tribunal which will include allegations of competence discrimination. I am the only supervillain toad to have been appointed to this iconic post in the 211 year history of the Royal Institution, and cannot see how firing me on the flimsy pretext of having sent so much cash up in smoke that the annual report was printed entirely in red ink can be in the best interests of the organisation, its members or fighting that ridiculous rodent.”
“Baron Greenback,” said the Institute, “has played a leading role, not only in the development of the RI, but also in the wider scientific community through his work in popularising science and attempting to rule the world. Over the coming months, the organisation will focus on its many, diverse and renowned activities in scientific research, education, public engagement and attempting to get out of the hole she left us in without shutting up shop. Spare change? Dawkins bless you, sir!”
Baron Greenback is understood to be applying for Sharon Shoesmith’s old position at Hackney Council.
http://newstechnica.com/2010/01/09/baron-silas-greenback-sues-royal-institution-for-competence-discrimination/
I have had cause to deal with this both on the server and the desktop.
tl;dr VMware works, and everything else is shit.
This pains me. VMware uses the pricing structure "how much have you got? yes, a bit more please thanks." They can do this because their VMs are not shit. They are ridiculously better than anything else.
VirtualBox in particular is just incompetent. It can more or less run Windows or Linux. As long as you don't want to do anything fancy, e.g. USB.
As a sysadmin, I would tremendously welcome something that cost less than VMware but didn't suck. No such thing presently exists.
For your home Linux box, use VMware Player if you value your sanity.
Yes, but that's because you have a damn clue. Baraminology actually exists as a study.
Not a huge step back - I'm using Xfce with my favourite GNOME apps and it's not annoying me (which is my primary criterion).
IMPORTANT: If using Xubuntu, install fresh - any Unity infection on the system will mess with Xfce because it uses GTK+.
Creation science is one of the greatest sources of really concentrated stupidity to be found anywhere.
Ladeez gemmun, I give you: baraminology.
I did say "feels like". I also know they don't allow indulgences such as the GFDL (festering piece of shit that it is).
Using Debian remnds you of all the little papercuts that Ubuntu takes care of.
Also, setting up any sort of wifi on Debian feels like having a little RMS on your shoulder lecturing you. Complete with smell.
That said, once Debian is set up it stays set up. Ubuntu (specifically parts of GNOME) is flaky as hell in 11.04.
Ah. no. It has 40 million signups. They have not given a figure for active users. For comparison, when Facebook says 800M, that's 800M users who use the thing at least slightly. When Twitter says 100M, that's 100M users who use the thing. When Google says 40M, that means 40M accounts created and rotting.
In fact, Unix is the result of a Reality Clarification Field.
.NET obsolete? Next you'll be claiming Microsoft has abandoned Silverlight!